Alice Rahon
Alice Rahon is best known as a poet and painter whose work straddled modern, ancient, and pre-historic cultures.
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Terry Mullen
Irish paralympic athlete
Joan Horan
Irish paralympian
Amanirenas
Warrior queen of the Nubian kingdom of Kush.
Gertrude Ederle
Olympic champion, world record holder and the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
Elizabeth Matilda Taylor
Blind/Deaf activist and Braille magazine editor
Hedwig Dransfeld
German writer and activist
Alison Lapper
British mouth and foot painter
Katie-George Dunlevy
Katie-George Dunlevy (b1981) is a high scoring paralympic road and track cyclist, best known for winning gold and silver medals with pilot Eve Crystal at the Rio Paralympics in 2016.
Violet Hilton
Violet and Daisy Hilton were conjoined twins who, after many years of exploitation at the hands of their adoptive mother and a corrupt manager on the show-business circuit, managed to strike out on their own and become hugely successful stars of stage, vaudeville and film in the USA.